Word: obviously
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...part, McGovern thinks that even "a billion dollars a year for hunger will be less than a third of what is needed," and he promises to press for an increase. Where Nixon will get the $270 million to start the program in 1970 is still unknown. One obvious, if possibly simplistic, solution would be to make a radical revision-or excision -of agricultural subsidies. The Government now pays farmers more than $1.8 billion a year not to grow crops. That sum would go far toward easing the chronic hunger pangs of millions of Americans...
Faculty Reaction. Meantime, the universities are trying to save themselves by seeking the key to orderly political processes, procedural safeguards that can turn campus protests away from naked force and toward rational debate. Above all, the obvious need is for long-aloof faculties to lead in reforming their universities. Here and there, professors are finally awakening. Items...
There is an obvious flaw in the new procedure. If the astronauts and the Apollo craft are indeed harboring alien organisms, the bugs could escape into the air when the hatch is opened, or be washed into the ocean while the astronauts are donning their biological suits. If the organisms are fond of oxygen or nitrogen-or thrive in salt water -they could begin to spread and multiply. Most scientists agree that the chances of life on the moon are remote, and some believe that any moon organisms would have reached the earth long ago on particles ejected from...
...horsepower and axle ratio. One Pennsylvania-based company, the Erie Insurance Exchange, already uses the horsepower-weight ratio to take the temperature of a prospective car and refuses to write new policies on any that register "hot." As Mann told a group of insurers in a speech: "It is obvious that performance cars are involved in a much higher number of accidents than nonperformance cars...
...educational projects for the past ten years, first thought that he had a novel in the shirtsleeves-to-Social Register saga of his forebears and contemporaries, the Bouviers. When a cousin named Jacqueline became America's First Lady and then a fabulous folk heroine, it was immediately obvious to the highly motivated men of the book business that the story of this man's family was too valuable a property to be frittered away in fiction...